(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

Origin

From Old French volume, from LatinvolÅ«men (“book, roll"), from volvÅ (“roll, turn about").

volume - Computer Definition

A physical storage unit, such as a hard disk, floppy disk, disk cartridge, CD-ROM disc or reel of tape. See volume label and logical volume.

volume - Investment & Finance Definition

The
total number of contracts, stock shares, or other investments that are traded
in a particular period. Volume figures are compiled by stock and futures
exchanges each trading day, both for the overall exchange and for individual
stocks and contracts. Technical analysts monitor volume just as much as they
monitor price movements. If a particular price movement occurs on a day with a
large trading volume, it is said to have a greater intensity than if the same
price action had occurred on a day with average trading volume.